[Calpernia]

I don't play with stocks.

>>>>It is pretty straightforward. Corporations have little or no power compared to the power of the state. If you are concerned about the exercise of arbitrary power, your concern should be focused on governmental institutions rather than on businesses.

I still don't see how this is in response to my post. I see you as changing the subject. Turn the focus from corporations to state governing.

[vbmoneyspender]

This was part of your initial argument:

Now adays, these large corporations (most of them) are nothing more than mini regime conditioning.

I presumed from this statement that you are arguing that corporations somehow form a threat to the average person. You then followed this statement up with a remark to me about large publicly traded corporations getting lots of easy money and then going out of business.

Now, if your argument is the former that corporations have too much power, that is at least an argument that can be responded to. If, however, your argument is that most large publicly traded corporations are evil because people invest money in them and then some of them go out of business, that is not an argument that can be responded to because it is simply not true.

[Willie Green]

Corporations have little or no power compared to the power of the state.

I don't believe that this holds true for large transnational corporations whose annual revenues often exceed the GNP of many industrialized nations.